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<blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4844527" data-attributes="member: 83805">To minimize possible alienation of the 4E crowd when rebranding 3.5E/Pathfinder as a 5E D&amp;D.In practice, I would probably agree that shoehorning 4E-isms into 3.5E/Pathfinder and releasing it as a hypothetical &quot;5E D&amp;D&quot; in a few years may not go over so well.Though this would be highly dependent on what happens between now and a possible future, when such a hypothetical &quot;5E D&amp;D&quot; is released.&nbsp; If 4E ends up being relatively short lived with Hasbro closing down the tabletop pen-and-paper D&amp;D division for a generation and shelving the D&amp;D intellectual property, another future generation's minds may be possibly completely fresh to the idea of such a hypothetical combination of 4E and 3.5E being reintroduced as &quot;5E D&amp;D&quot;, possibly without as many &quot;grognards&quot; being around by then.This would all be moot if Hasbro ends up closing down the tabletop pen-and-paper D&amp;D division anyways, and ends up licensing out the D&amp;D brand name for tabletop RPGs.&nbsp; In a possible second hypothetical scenario, Paizo could be the recipient of such a licensing agreement where Pathfinder RPG is essentially rebranded as a &quot;5E D&amp;D&quot;.&nbsp; It may turn off and alienate the 4E crowd, but nevertheless Paizo is formally not Hasbro/WotC and probably will not have as much legacy &quot;baggage&quot; as WotC/TSR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ggroy, post: 4844527, member: 83805"] To minimize possible alienation of the 4E crowd when rebranding 3.5E/Pathfinder as a 5E D&D. In practice, I would probably agree that shoehorning 4E-isms into 3.5E/Pathfinder and releasing it as a hypothetical "5E D&D" in a few years may not go over so well. Though this would be highly dependent on what happens between now and a possible future, when such a hypothetical "5E D&D" is released. If 4E ends up being relatively short lived with Hasbro closing down the tabletop pen-and-paper D&D division for a generation and shelving the D&D intellectual property, another future generation's minds may be possibly completely fresh to the idea of such a hypothetical combination of 4E and 3.5E being reintroduced as "5E D&D", possibly without as many "grognards" being around by then. This would all be moot if Hasbro ends up closing down the tabletop pen-and-paper D&D division anyways, and ends up licensing out the D&D brand name for tabletop RPGs. In a possible second hypothetical scenario, Paizo could be the recipient of such a licensing agreement where Pathfinder RPG is essentially rebranded as a "5E D&D". It may turn off and alienate the 4E crowd, but nevertheless Paizo is formally not Hasbro/WotC and probably will not have as much legacy "baggage" as WotC/TSR. [/QUOTE]

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